LONDON:

PRINTED BY CHARLES WOOD,

Poppin's Court, Fleet Street.

HARRY AND
AND LUCY

CONCLUDED;

BEING THE

LAST PART OF EARLY LESSONS.

BY

MARIA EDGEWORTH.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

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The business of Education, in respect of knowledge, is not, as I think, to
perfect a learner in all or any one of the sciences; but to give his mind
that disposition, and those habits, that may enable him to attain any
part of knowledge he shall stand in need of in the future course of his
life.
LOCKE.

SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

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1827.

LONDON:

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Poppin's Court, Fleet Street.

HARRY AND LUCY

CONCLUDED.

On the evening of the last day of their journey, Harry and Lucy looked out anxiously at every house they saw; and many times they hoped that cottages, which at a distance peeping between trees looked charming, would be theirs, till, on a nearer view, they were as often contented to let them pass. One with a honeysuckle porch, and another with a trellis, and another with a pomegranate in full flower. Lucy, however, looked back with regret, fearing that theirs could never be so pretty. Theirs was to be on the sea shore, but as yet they did not seem to be near the sea. Presently they turned into a lane, which led down a

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